Good, Jetbrains desperately need to focus. I love their offerings, but I can see their value rapidly evaporating as Claude code/agents eats their lunch.
Meanwhile you can’t open a project’s git worktree without requiring a full and complete reindex - a complete non-starter in larger monorepos. Their shared index offering is a complete joke, and generally it just feels like the wheels are coming off their product somewhat.
> Code With Me was a tool designed for real-time pair programming and remote collaboration
It regrettably makes sense: Nowadays a lot of people are instead asking an LLM chatbot to "collaborate." It may be inferior to a coworker--perhaps dangerously subtly so--but you can invoke it at any time which is convenient.
I used it a couple of times to write code alongside a dev when I was working with a client who had their own dev team. It never worked well for us, mostly because I use the vim extension and it seemed absolutely incapable of translating typical vim usage to "normal" actions. Trying to write just a couple lines of code would lock the IDE for both of us, or shift things around at the bottom (like the "editing a word document" meme) and leave incomplete changes in weird places (aka sneaky compiler errors).
This was more than a year ago, so they hopefully had fixed it by now, but we gave up after a few sessions.
This is such a shame. It was the single best code pairing tool for the longest time and did not rely on mere screen sharing.
Good, Jetbrains desperately need to focus. I love their offerings, but I can see their value rapidly evaporating as Claude code/agents eats their lunch.
Meanwhile you can’t open a project’s git worktree without requiring a full and complete reindex - a complete non-starter in larger monorepos. Their shared index offering is a complete joke, and generally it just feels like the wheels are coming off their product somewhat.
> Code With Me was a tool designed for real-time pair programming and remote collaboration
It regrettably makes sense: Nowadays a lot of people are instead asking an LLM chatbot to "collaborate." It may be inferior to a coworker--perhaps dangerously subtly so--but you can invoke it at any time which is convenient.
I used it a couple of times to write code alongside a dev when I was working with a client who had their own dev team. It never worked well for us, mostly because I use the vim extension and it seemed absolutely incapable of translating typical vim usage to "normal" actions. Trying to write just a couple lines of code would lock the IDE for both of us, or shift things around at the bottom (like the "editing a word document" meme) and leave incomplete changes in weird places (aka sneaky compiler errors).
This was more than a year ago, so they hopefully had fixed it by now, but we gave up after a few sessions.
Source: https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2026/03/sunsetting-code-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397747)
This is a shame - while I never used it, it always looked like the way I would have wanted to remotely collaborate.